COMM 4600-880--Exam 1 Review

For the exam, you should be familiar with the following terms and concepts

· What is social constructionism?

· Why does difference matter?

· How do we construct difference?

· Dialogue and difference.

· Forums and Voice

· Power and Difference

· Ideology and Hegemony

· Dominant, Negotiated, and Oppositional readings

· Discursive Closure

· Politically Responsive Constructionist Theory of Communication

· Dialogic Open Formation

· Institutionalization of difference.

· Making Choices Visible

· (De)Institutionalization of difference

· Otherness

· Reification

· Associative, Defensive and Critical Listening vs. Listening to Understand

· Argument Culture

· Objectivation, Externalization, and Internalization

· Institutionalization and Legitimation

· Pretext stops

· Cultural capital

· Relationship between power, privilege, and difference(s) (and construction of “normal”)

· You should also be able to give specific examples of how race/ethnicity, social class, sex and gender, and sexuality are constructed and maintained institutionally (and relate to your own experience)

· Institutional and Systemic privilege and oppression (how do these operate?)